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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
10
An advertisement touts Stuarts Calcium Waters as a skin beautifier that clears pimples, blackheads, eczema, and acne. It claims calcium sulfide purifies skin, enriches it, and improves vitality, with nationwide sale in drug stores and a mail offer for trial boxes.
President Speckels of a Federal sugar refining company told Senate committees that there is no national sugar shortage in the United States. He blamed regional shortages in the West and Atlantic states while asserting world supply remains steady. He cited last year’s carryover and Germany’s wartime output as context for overall availability.
A club meeting at Elk club rooms on East Front Street outlined December 17 Christmas party plans. Ladies G. Samuels and J. Butler lead the committee with cards as the main diversion and a luncheon planned. Post meeting activities included fancy needlework and a tray luncheon served by Mesdames McGaughes, Let, and Ashcraft. Earlier, Evanglical parsonage Rock Island hosted the quick wedding of Helene B Friese and John McKillip with Rev Roll officiating.
Simple wedding vows were exchanged at the First Presbyterian church in Elizai near Illinois with Mildred Markely and Pin L. Fuller as the bride and groom. The reception followed on a Illinois farm for the couple who plan to reside there after January. Separate notes recount a McKillip wedding in Muscatine with 40 guests, and plans for a future home in the city at 1017 Hast Third Street. Industrial society and charitable groups met to postpone Yuletide meetings, carded buttons sale, and Red Grass work events, with officers named for the Mraven Verein and Congressional Aid Society activities.
The Saturday Evening Post features the Mary Roberts Rinehart story "Miss Clark" with Marguerite Clark in a role praised as youthful and lively. Readers nationwide recognize the tale of Bib Clark's adventures and a plot of romance and humor amid her two-week spending spree. Director J Searle Dawley also backs the project with prior work on Miss Clark's films, including Bob's Gurgling, showing at the A Muse U today and tomorrow.
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